Powder-receptacle.



A MAUPHEE.

POWDER RBGEPTAGLE.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 12, 1907.

905,725. Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

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, s ecifications: Letters Patent;

. Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

Application filed Octoher 12, 1907. Serial No. 397,129.

, To all whom it mar/concern." a Beit knownthat I-{Anous MAOPHEE, a subjectof thef Kingof England, residing at London, England', hitve invented new'and useful Improvements Relating to Powder- Receptacles, of which the'following is a.speci-' fication. v

My invention relates to that class of powder receptacles that are fitted with a springcontrolled dispensing head comprising a movable-ca or cover seated upon a closed tubular nee andmy object-1s to simplify the same with means for loosening the powder.

construction of said head and provide the therein, so that, while cheapening the manufacture of such head,'areater'reliability is qua'ntities rather than caked lumps. I"0b-. tain this objecthy the'arrangement. of arts insured for delivering, t e powder in loose illustrated in the annexed drawing, inw 'ch:

- Fi' u're 1 is a portion of a receptacle pro- '1 vide with my improved head which latter is shownin section in its open position; Fig. 2,

I is a corresponding section showing the head closed; Fi 3, is a crossse,ction on the line A-Ao'f' ig. 1 Fig. 4, is an external view of the'cap detached; Fig. 5, 1s a part-section of the-cap applied to a cartridge tube; Fig.

' 6, shows a removable head securedto ajar;

Fig. -7, is a'inodification to Fig. 6;. and Fig. 8

- shows a diflerent manner of attaching the head, to a-jar or tin-box.

In all the figures, similar parts are m'arked v by thesameireference letters 8.5

Referring first to Figs. ,"1 to *4, a denotes a metallic powder receptacle having a neck I;

closed, at the upper endand formed with a plurality of lateral holes a Iieferabl elongated as shown. These hoesmay eidistributed all round the neck or only over half I itssurface. Furtherrnhre, there is a rectangular hole (1 formed in the side of-saidmeck; 3 The movable cap 0 has oval orifices f and a rectangular orifice g adaptell to register with the orifices c and 1 respectively, the material from the orifice g beiiig partially out and then bent inward so as to form a tongue h. This tonguezforms aguide and stop that revents the cap turning upon theneck'a'h at the same time limiting. its endwise motion; thus obviating in a simple manner-the necessity of providing specia poses. Moreover, the tongue It also serves means for these purasa stirrer to loosen the powder which often has a tendency to cake and fall out in lumps.

'The cap is furnished with the usual internal spring a which normallpforces it outward, t ff y closing the orifices. Y e receptacle can be filled through an aperture in the lower end which is closed by.

means of a plate'pressed into the rim of said aperture after a well known manner;

The cartridgein Fig. 5, is formed with a .head like that shown at Figs. 1 and 2, and

with a plain tubular body 7c closed at the other end by a tight fitting cap Z, or in any 'other'convenient manner.

For powder jars and the like as shown at Figs. 6 and 7, I provide a separate dispensin head constructedv after the manner of the previously described and having a tubular prolongation mwith a collar 'n which is fitted 111- a stopper 0 in the neck of the jar 1). Or in lieu of the tubular portion and collar, I may adopt a tapering prolongation g.

' In some instances I may dis ense with the oval orifices, but in all cases t e rectangular orifice-with its tongue is provided.

Accordi Fig, 8', the ad may be'formed with an enlarged shoulder portion 1" having an inner downwardly projecting rim .9 furnished with a-p'ackin-g ringt of suitable material so as to to the arrangement shown in p insure a tightj oint in the, top of a tin box 44 or the like.

What I claim and wishto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

In a owder receptacle, the combination of a top aving a rejecting tubular neck, an aperture in the si e of said neck, acap fitting over said neck, a coiled sprin'g between the to of said neck and the cap, a portion of the sids of said capzbeing partially severed and the tongue thus formed n being bent inward throughthe apertures in the neck to form a stop to the upward movement of the 'cap and the aperture in the cap formed by such tongue registering with the aperture in the kpeck when the cap is depressed, as set fort In witness whereof I have hereunto'set m hand in presence of" two witnesses.

- ANGUS MAoPHEE. "Witnesses: l THEODORE GRAY-Ear,

GUSTAV Scrimmages.- 

